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"My regular readers may remember that two years ago, I was winning so hard at
life that I bought myself a brand-spankin’ new boat as a treat. Don’t get me
wrong, I’m still on an independent journalist’s salary here though, so when I
say that I had “boat money”, I mean I scraped together enough to buy a $1,000
electric boat directly from China. It’s now been two years since that Alibaba
delivery, so let’s see how it’s held up and what it looks like now.
As a bit of a refresher first though, here’s what I got at the time. Inside of
a surprisingly well-made steel frame and plywood-lined crate (that probably
would have cost $1k by itself to have made in the US), my five-seater
fiberglass boat awaited me.
It was powered by a cute little 500W inboard motor with a belt and pulley drive
connecting it to a rudimentary prop fashioned out of 1/8″ (3mm thick) steel
plate bent and welded onto a section of pipe.
The boat didn’t have batteries, so I added my own pair of 12V 200Ah LiFePO4
batteries to create a 5 kWh battery pack that was likely way bigger than I
needed.
You can check out my unboxing and testing video here, which went viral with
nearly four million people having now joined me at the beginning of this crazy
adventure."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
